Another busy night for Elizabethan Lodge! In a change to our previously scheduled programming, Worshipful Master Paul Mallon will now continue to lead our lodge for the coming Masonic year, being ‘Proclaimed’ to that end at last nights meeting. A cohort of new and progressing lodge officers, most of them ‘light blues’, were similarly invested, and will doubtlessly benefit from W.Bro Paul’s *cough* experience, genuine and boundless enthusiasm for Craft masonry, and keen mentorship of the younger brethren at our Lodges of Instruction and beyond.⁣⁣⁣⁣
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To witness this, the lodge had the honour of hosting RW Bro C A Stuart Hadler, Past Provincial Grand Master of Somerset, himself representing RW Bro Raymond Guthrie, the Provincial Grand Master for the Province of Somerset. With W.Bro Paul and his officers installed, the next order of business for the evening was a captivating second degree ‘Passing’ ceremony, with another of our younger and more-recent initiates continuing his journey through the Craft degrees.⁣⁣⁣⁣
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The customarily-animated Festive Board following the meeting produced a combined alms/raffle total of £175, all of which will be donated towards Bro. Scott ‘The Beard’ Brimson’s charity firewalk, in aid of Dorothy House, taking place on 9th Nov 2023. This unusual ‘daily advancement’ will see Bro. Scott walking barefoot across 10-12 feet of glowing hot coals, all for the very best of causes.